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Monthly Archives: February 2013

“You sent me the link to your blog, and I knew I was never going to open it,” one of my closest friends who falls on the other side of this issue told me. It was reported that a family member said something to the effect of: “I just began reading a few words of…

My new LesbianFriend added the following thoughts after my post “How can you base your beliefs on a book that has been edited and translated hundreds of times?” I thought it a great opportunity to address the question: “How do you interpret the Bible?” Yourlesbianfriend writes: [An excerpt] “History books typically have more than facts,…

Originally posted on Same-Sex Attractions: from My Recommended Reading List (Part 2 of 12) One of my goals for this blog in 2013 is to spotlight my “Recommended Reading List”. “Loving Homosexuals As Jesus Would: A Fresh Christian Approach” is the selection for February. To view the complete list of my favorite books on the…

What, oh what, will the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) decide about allowing gay leaders? Will they “cave” so as not to be considered hateful and homophobic? Will they finally “be on the right side of history” and change their policy? Even some Christian blogs and commenters are urging the BSA to lift the ban…

The church is not perfect, and you’ll never hear me say that it is. In recognizing areas of weakness in the church, it only confirms that the Bride of Christ needs her Bridegroom to clothe her in garments of purity- because on her own, she doesn’t deserve to wear white. But while the church is…